James and I were woken this morning at about 6 a.m., or perhaps earlier (I didn't look at the clock) by really high winds outside. The wind was unusually strong to actually wake us up from sleep like that - much stronger than the winds on 8th December. The trees were lashing about outside and the house was groaning in the wind. A slate flew off the roof and hit the car, and a piece of wood was blown down from Alasdair's window. Jack jumped up on the bed and sat up beside me, I think he was quite disturbed by the weather as well because he kept licking his lips the way he does when he is nervous, and at one point my bedside lamp started to shake because of the storm shaking the house and Jack and I looked at it and then looked at each other in a worried way. Later we heard on the news that gusts had reached 91 mph in Glasgow and there was lots of damage to houses, trees blown over, and even lorries overturned on the Kingston Bridge.
By about 9 a.m. the strongest winds had died down and the rest of the day was just very wet and windy - probably the worst weather of the Christmas holidays so far! But that did not daunt us and we had a great day around the house. James started using his DVD "Learning Guitar for Dummies" which I gave him for Christmas, and Ally and I went to the shops for a bit. Jamie and Nicola watched Sherlock Holmes and got packed up for going down south tomorrow.
Later I went to the Zumba class which is taught by my beautiful and fit neighbour Christine; she asked me along ages ago but this is the first time I have gone, spurred on my by resolution to get fitter this year. I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt very virtuous!
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